Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

Men's 4x100 metre relay at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Olympiastadion: Berlin, Germany
Dates	August 9 (heats, final)
Competitors	from 15 nations
Teams	15
Winning time	39.8
Medalists
Jesse Owens Ralph Metcalfe Foy Draper Frank Wykoff  United States Orazio Mariani Gianni Caldana Elio Ragni Tullio Gonnelli  Italy Wilhelm Leichum Erich Borchmeyer Erwin Gillmeister Gerd Hornberger  Germany

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeple	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The men's 4x100 metres relay event at the 1936 Olympic Games took place on August 9.^[1] The United States team of Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalfe, Foy Draper and Frank Wykoff won in a world record time of 39.8. Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller, both Jewish, were originally slated to compete in the American relay team but were unexpectedly replaced by Owens and Metcalfe.

Results

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	United States	Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalfe, Foy Draper, Frank Wykoff	40.0	=WR
2	Italy	Orazio Mariani, Gianni Caldana, Elio Ragni, Tullio Gonnelli	41.1
3	South Africa	Eric Grimbeek, Pat Dannaher, Tom Lavery, Marthinus Theunissen	41.7
4	Finland	Toivo Ahjopalo, Toivo Sariola, Palle Virtanen, Aki Tammisto	42.0
	Japan	Takayoshi Yoshioka, Monta Suzuki, Mutsuo Taniguchi, Masao Yazawa		DSQ

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Athletes	Time	Notes
1	Netherlands	Tjeerd Boersma, Wil van Beveren, Chris Berger, Tinus Osendarp	41.3
2	Argentina	Juan Lavenás, Antonio Sande, Carlos Hofmeister, Tomás Beswick	41.9
3	Hungary	Mario Minai, Gyula Gyenes, József Kovács, József Sir	42.0
4	Great Britain	Charles Wiard, Don Finlay, Walter Rangeley, Alan Pennington	42.4
5	France	Maurice Carlton, Pierre Dondelinger, Paul Bronner, Robert Paul	42.6
6	Republic of China	Poh Kimseng, Huang Yingjie, Chen Kingkwan, Liu Changchun	44.8

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Athletes	Time	Notes
1	Germany	Wilhelm Leichum, Erich Borchmeyer, Erwin Gillmeister, Gerd Hornberger	41.4
2	Canada	Sam Richardson, Bruce Humber, Lee Orr, Howie McPhee	41.5
3	Sweden	Lennart Lindgren, Irvin Ternström, Östen Sandström, Åke Stenqvist	41.5
4	Switzerland	Albert Jud, Bernard Marchand, Georges Meyer, Paul Hänni	42.2

Final

Rank	Country	Time	Notes
	United States	39.8	WR
	Italy	41.1
	Germany	41.2
4	Argentina	42.2
5	Canada	42.7
	Netherlands		DSQ

Key: DSQ = Disqualified, WR = World record

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